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Thursday, October 23, 2014

Issue:
Your assembly has several Level of Detail Representations set up, which works well. The problem is that when you add a new component to the assembly, you have to go to each Level of Detail and suppress the component in order to prevent it from showing up in those existing Level of Detail Representations.

Solution:
Here is an iLogic rule that will suppress any selected
components in all of the other LOD's, with the exception of the active
LOD.

This allows you to place the component in the assembly with the LOD
you want to add the component to set active, then select the component
(or components) and run this iLogic rule to remove the component(s) from
the other LODs.

This iLogic rule also doesn't suppress the selected components in the
standard LODs, such as the "Master" LOD, the "All Content Center
Suppressed" LOD, etc.

Note too that it saves the file each time one of
the other LODs is modified in order to make the changes "stick", so if
you have a large assembly with many LODs it might take a bit for this
rule to run.

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